yeah, it's just a snap shackle on the loop. i saw it in the catalog and thought it was strange that they would go that direction since that's a really expensive and complex piece of hardware compared to the QRs everybody else is using. only think i could think of was that it was easy and they didn't have to invest any real r&d time.

but i still think that putting a pin shackle on the chicken loop is a bad idea since we all know how well they perform when they get sandy. this thing is going to be resting in the sand all the time!